List your 10 current favorite authors..

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19. My list:

Peter Bowen

Jeffrey Deaver

Kent Haruf

Barbara Kingsolver

Pat Conroy

Craig Johnson (He's an interesting guy. We've emailed back and forth several times after I commented about how much I liked his first book)

Harlan Coben

Dana Stabenow

Nevada Barr

Alan Bradley
(Bradley's main character is a hoot! Her name is Flavian de Luce and she is 11 years old. She lives in a decaying English mansion which happens to have a great chemistry lab in a part of it. It was left by an eccentrics relative. She solves crimes, whips up poisons or concoctions to bedevil her sister, and is generally a snoop. In her latest novel, she is making a potion to catch Santa. As outlandish as this may seem, the author makes it work. I love mysteries with a different hook that hold together.)